From the break room to the boardroom, people like to be recognized for their successes. Within the study of workforce motivation, evidence points to employee recognition as the driver of employee engagement. How do you tell, though, if your company’s employee...
A “Rising Star” is someone you recognize over time as you work with him or her – an employee who demonstrates excellent performance, earns the best assignments, and gets moved into higher roles and responsibilities faster than everyone else. But some rising stars who...
Measures, metrics, and indicators (often referred to as Key Performance Indicators or KPI) are common words in the field of workforce analytics. More than jargon, these three terms define the building blocks of data analytics that help HR professionals understand...
Your company’s talent bench indicates the strengths and weaknesses employees bring to the job. Knowing the breadth and depth of your talent bench means understanding if you have the right skill sets your business needs – not only at this moment in time but also for...
A big groundswell of opinion among businesses over the past 10-12 years is that employee engagement is the key to a company’s success. Not to be confused with employee satisfaction, which has more to do with personal career growth, employee engagement is defined by...
Employee turnover is one of the top three concerns of companies (along with productivity and performance, which I’ve blogged about previously). That’s because employee turnover equals big bucks. One HR industry measure shows that by reducing turnover just one percent...
